Overview
- The film began streaming worldwide on Oct. 24 following a brief theatrical run after festival premieres in Venice and New York.
- Critics largely praise its nerve-racking realism and ensemble performances, with recurring notes that the multi-perspective replay structure can dilute momentum.
- Set over roughly 18–19 minutes, the story tracks the U.S. government’s real-time response to a single missile threat through successive viewpoints inside the national-security apparatus.
- Coverage highlights extensive research by writer Noah Oppenheim and Kathryn Bigelow, including interviews with former Pentagon, CIA and White House officials to recreate protocols and terminology.
- Fact-focused reporting accompanying the release emphasizes real-world limits of U.S. missile defenses, citing a small interceptor inventory and modest test success rates that leave outcomes uncertain.